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Re: repo.or.cz wishes?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Aug 29, 2007, 17:11 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0708291009570.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> 
> Not if I already have a pointer from B to A's refs.  repo.or.cz
> also has this same pointer:
> 
> 	git clone --shared A B
> 	ln -s A/refs B/refs/forkee
Now, this doesn't work well with packed refs, I'm afraid.

So I suspect that if we really want to support something like this, we'd need to do more than just avoid the recursion when you cross-link.

		Linus
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